--- title: Taffy says «inciting» and «incitement» when she means exciting and e… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy says «inciting» and «incitement» when she means exciting and excitement, «s'prise» for surprise and «thinked» for thought; these are her funny child's words. Who acts: Taffy, these. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taffy, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:11 # text = Taffy says «inciting» and «incitement» when she means exciting and excitement, «s'prise» for surprise and «thinked» for thought; these are her funny child's words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 inciting incite NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 incitement incitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 13 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 s'prise s'prise NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 thinked think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Taffy | inciting and incitement | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent incite=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Taffy | exciting and excitement and s'prise | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exciting=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | for thought | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | Taffy's funny child's words | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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